Lambrini Girls’ “God’s Country” Rejects PJ Harvey’s Melancholic England
Unlike PJ Harvey’s sad voice singing about the polluted Thames and England, for the Lambrini Girls, there is no mythic past when these symbols were great.
John Lennon
John Lennon is a professor of English at the University of South Florida.
His most recent book is Conflict Graffiti: From Revolution to Gentrification.
Conflict Graffiti (University of Chicago Press, 2022), "Bureaucratizing Black Lives Matter murals: Racial capitalism, policing and erasure of radical politics. Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, Volume 9, Issue 1, Jun 2022, p. 89 - 110
Meryl Streek Is Still Angry in ‘Songs for the Deceased’
In Songs for the Deceased Irish avant-garde punk’s Meryl Streek rages against the landlord class, which perpetuates the violent system of precarity.